Definition of sack

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Sack (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels..

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Pillow :: Pillow (n.) Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material..
Budget :: Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions..
Ransack :: Ransack (v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
Shagebush :: Shagebush (n.) A sackbut.
Halter-sack :: Halter-sack (n.) A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged..
Sackage :: Sackage (n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.
Canary :: Canary (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
Bed :: Bed (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs..
Disacknowledging :: Disacknowledging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disacknowledg.
Sacque :: Sacque (n.) Same as 2d Sack, 3..
Bag :: Bag (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee..
Disacknowledged :: Disacknowledged (imp. & p. p.) of Disacknowledg.
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
Satchel :: Satchel (n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag..
Bag :: Bag (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money..
Air Bed :: Air bed () A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed..
Sackcloth :: Sackcloth (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence..
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos
S :: S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it
Sack-winged :: Sack-winged (a.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.
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